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You need to be more specific and detailed in what you are doing or trying to accomplish.
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MoabNov 12 '11 at 17:44

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According to the HP website, this is the motherboard contained in your computer.

Note in the rectangle, this board in some configurations can have 4 SATA ports, but your system only has two, one Black (data1) and one White (data2).

If this is like most assembly line friendly computer systems produced now, one red cable goes from the black drive to the black SATA port, the other red cable goes from the white drive to the white SATA port.

though, i would note most drives i've seen have black connectors, and it shouldn't matter which port you plug it into. from the size of the drive, i'm also assuming the current drive is using a legacy PATA port
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Journeyman Geek♦Nov 13 '11 at 0:53

True. I've been working on these things since MFM servo driven head 10MB Winchester drives. It's such a breath of fresh air to work on the newer stuff as you just plug it together and it pretty much sets itself up. At it's inception, Plug N' Play didn't, now you can't imagine life without it. Just go into BIOS and set the boot order. The color coding was from some newer systems I had to work on, since he's got HP cables I'm guessing the drives are OEM, of course if you're not working with OEM, the peripheral connectors will all be black.
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Fiasco LabsNov 13 '11 at 1:59

eh, i just wish they would hurry up and globally replace pins with those awesome slot style connectors.
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Journeyman Geek♦Nov 13 '11 at 5:01

(Remembering using fine needle nose pliers to straighten bent over pins in HD-15 VGA connector on new $800 monitor) Hear you on that one!
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Fiasco LabsNov 13 '11 at 17:22